La Notte Poco Prima della Foresta

CLAUDIO SANTAMARIA

in

LA NOTTE  POCO  PRIMA  DELLA  FORESTA

byBERNARD- MARIE  KOLTÈS

translation LUCA SCARLINI

with musica originale by

GIULIANO SANGIORGI

sassofono

RAFFAELE CASARANO

set design

CARMINE GUARINO

 opera installativa

LOREDANA LONGO

 costumes

CATERINA NARDI

installazione sonora

GIULIANO LOMBARDO

production photos

PINO LE PERA

assistant director

DANIELA PERTICARÁ

 

directed by

JUAN  DIEGO  PUERTA  LOPEZ

The show premiered at the Teatro Sanzio in Urbino on 2 March 2010. A breathless monologue, a single sentence, a bursting river of words, a series of moments that leave no escape. Rain falls; a man from the outskirts of every city tries to recognise himself in a visionary night world. He speaks a language of repetitions and paraphrases, and his words strike hard, like a boundless desire to escape. Being a foreigner, feeling a stranger, looking for a room for the night – for part of the night at least – approaching a friend, a girl, seeing a prostitute who looks out of tune, struggling between the difficulty of being and the craving to live, while memory, nostalgia and anger surface, along with the rain that keeps returning as a symbol. The forest – that of distant Nicaragua, an idyllic land without armies or control – in the story of an unbridled race in pursuit of a dream.

“Being a foreigner. Approaching a new young friend in the rain… Carrying in your heart a girl of the night, a riverside ectoplasm. Hating mirrors. Loving mad whores…”

A rigorous score between the metaphorical word that becomes tangible and the body that cannot avoid existing at every moment. Breathless. A foreigner trying to recognise himself in a different world where memory, nostalgia and anger surface… the rain as a symbol that keeps returning.

I wanted to recreate a 'night' world through projected video images, a true virtual installation that gives the show a visionary feel. A journey of words and gestures that hold Koltès' poetics in the air. Photographs are free of publication rights for press use. Please always credit the photographer: ph. Pino Le Pera

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